{"product_id":"bluets-by-maggie-nelson-9781911214526","title":"Bluets","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs seen on BBC2's \"Between the Covers\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eA Guardian Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation – Olivia Laing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Bluets\" winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Andy Warhol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMuch like Roland Barthes's \"A Lover's Discourse,\" \"Bluets\" has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVisceral, learned, and acutely lucid, \"Bluets\" is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maggie Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56680177107317,"sku":"9781911214526","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781911214526.jpg?v=1769796018","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/bluets-by-maggie-nelson-9781911214526","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}